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From the Interim City Manager's Desk

March 20, 2017

Public Input: 2018 Budget

We've launched our second wave of public input on the City’s 2018 budget. You can vote on your top budget priority through Friday, March 24, four ways. The poll is very simple -- it only asks one question: What is your highest priority for Topeka's 2018 budget? Please take a minute to tell us your opinion. We will compile all the results and present it to the Governing Body to help your elected leaders develop a budget that fits your needs.

Development
Services issued a building permit for the State of Kansas Parole Office at 1825
SW Western, a building in Chesney Park that has been vacant for 10 years. The project
will re-purpose 10,000 square feet of largely industrial space for offices.

Street received 22 service requested and filled 933 potholes. Traffic also processed 53 traffic signal and 61 sign work orders.

Property
maintenance processed 13 warrants as well as the first demolition from the 2017
budget: 509 SW Buchanan St. So far this year, inspectors have completed 1,002
housing cases.

In all seriousness, invertebrates make up the vast majority of life on earth, and are critical to ecosystems throughout the world. Our bug zoo is one of only a handful in the country, and showcases species from around the globe. Keeper Maloney offers free tours of the bug zoo at 2:30 p.m. every other Thursday -- the next one is March 23.

Coming Up

Topeka's Governing Body meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The agenda includes a vote on the development agreement for a downtown plaza and a discussion with a representative from our executive search firm, which is heading up the search for Topeka's new city manager.

JEDO will have a special meeting at 6 p.m. March 29.

The Neighborhood Resource Expo will be from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 1, at the Big Gage Shelter House. Participants
who visit 10 of the 50 booths will receive free entry to the zoo that day.